Welcome Guest [Log In] [Register]
We hope you enjoy your visit.

You're currently viewing our forum as a guest. This means you are limited to certain areas of the board and there are some features you can't use. If you join our community, you'll be able to access member-only sections, and use many member-only features such as customizing your profile, sending personal messages, and voting in polls. Registration is simple, fast, and completely free.

Why join MGSF?
  • MGSF is officially the internet's largest MGS discussion board. So, you can enjoy your time with an active community of dedicated MGS fans.
  • Want more than just MGS talk? MGSF has a huge off-topic section for Opinions, Sport, Music, Movies, and other video games!
  • Organizations! Create your own or join an existing one. Organizations are sub-communities of the forum designed so you can gather with your closest friends on the board.
  • Blog! As a member, you have the ability to create your own blog on the forum for other users and/or guests to read.
  • Our forum also has an Arts sections for you to express your creative side, as well as a Digital Art forum in the computer corner.
  • We also have a Kojima Productions forum for members who wish to discuss KP-related issues outside of MGS.
Join our community today!

If you are already a member, please log in to your account to access all of your features:

Username:   Password:
Add Reply
stereotypical view of europeans
Topic Started: Jan 9 2013, 09:58:40 AM (3,743 Views)
Brera
Member Avatar


first of all, im no racist. anyone with a right mind knows stereotyping is nonsense. anyway, i was wondering what the stereotypical view of europeans is by the rest of the world? for example, europeans would stereotypically view americans as overweight, unintelligent, simple minded people, with no knowledgeof the outside world, but still trying to act as the police of the world. eventhough none of them has ever heard of an atlas. now everyone knows this is not a realistic view, but i would like to know what the stereotypical views about us europeans are.
Posted Image

Spoiler: click to toggle


Good old sig #epicmspaintskills
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
The Baneposter
Member Avatar
Only me

Depends on what type of European. For example, British are commonly stereotyped as stuck up tea drinkers.
Posted Image
Spoiler: click to toggle
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
saiz

Brera
Jan 9 2013, 09:58:40 AM
first of all, im no racist. anyone with a right mind knows stereotyping is nonsense. anyway, i was wondering what the stereotypical view of europeans is by the rest of the world? for example, europeans would stereotypically view americans as overweight, unintelligent, simple minded people, with no knowledgeof the outside world, but still trying to act as the police of the world. eventhough none of them has ever heard of an atlas. now everyone knows this is not a realistic view, but i would like to know what the stereotypical views about us europeans are.
Correct!

We say this while completely ignoring our own obesity and stupidity (there's no difference between how stupid the US or Europe is. If you asked random European where Vietnam is, nobody would really know.) People are fat and stupid everywhere on regular basis, it's not a US thing at all.

I admit, I'm not too fond of the Americans as nation, not because of anything of the above, but because of their arrogance. Still, I don't actively judge them and don't have any of these thoughts in mind when people talk to me and tell me they're from the US. It's just, you know, one of those things I feel and I'm not terribly proud about, but it's always nagging me in the back of my mind every time I hear something bad happening that is connected to the US.

EDIT: In "retaliation", how Americans really see Europe?
How is this?

It's ... not too far off at all, haha.
Edited by saiz, Jan 9 2013, 10:21:39 AM.
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
Brera
Member Avatar


funny stuff and pretty true. netherlands: drugs, hookers, drugged out hookers haha
Posted Image

Spoiler: click to toggle


Good old sig #epicmspaintskills
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
Bames Jond
Member Avatar
now this is pod racing

Never been to Europe. Would like to go some day though. I don't think the rest of the world holds Europe in a much different regard than the US. Like the US, I think a lot of the Western European countries project the image of 'imperialistic country full of conceited fucks,' but the difference is that the US takes the cake as the epitome of that image.


Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
The Governor
Member Avatar
Hi-Tech Soldier
Well here's the one stereotype I have heard a lot. Many Americans criticize Europeans because they work, on average, far fewer hours than average Americans and take more vacation time. This is at least the case with countries like France.
KoЯnFlakes
 
I think that since the FOX unit was part of the CIA, that they'd have given Zero some specifications to how it would be acceptable to run things, which probably meant that bagging your turds and carrying them around with you was tossed out the window, it'd be stupid anyway since even if it was bagged, the stench would've leaked out eventually, and I don't know about you but I'm pretty sure I'd be able to smell it if some random guy was crawling through the bushes carrying a bag of his own shit, especially if he put that and urinated in the same bag...yeah...not very stealthy.
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
DrEdArgon
Member Avatar
AKA The Game Eater!
Finland: "Everyone is cold towards others, nobody talks unless they are drunk and everyone is carrying knives and axes." That is most common stereotypical view I have heard.
Posted Image
FoxHound Insider Battle Round 1 || YouTube Channel (WARNING! Autoplay)
Awards
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
Antii
Member Avatar
Nerf herder.
DrEdArgon
Jan 9 2013, 01:00:15 PM
Finland: "Everyone is cold towards others, nobody talks unless they are drunk and everyone is carrying knives and axes." That is most common stereotypical view I have heard.
I've never met a single person who carried a knife or an axe with them either as a weapon or to defend themselves. That line might be stereotypical but it's not true at all.
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
Shyne
Member Avatar
10 Year Vet
England: Bad teeth, tea drinkers, beef eaters, up themselves, always fighting, binge drinking.
Wales: Never heard of it.
Scotland: Everyone loves them, hard as nails, whisky, ginger.
Ireland: Guiness, potatos, always drunk and not in Ireland, IRA.
France: Cheese eating surrender monkeys, cheese and wine, snooty romantic gits.
Sweden: Hot blondes.
Holland: Always happy, funny accent, weed, whores, flat.
Germany: Towels on the sunbeds abroad, organised and efficent to the maximum degree, Oktoberfest, cars.
Norway: Black metal fanatics killing each other, vikings, beards.
Romania: Vampires, vodka.
Ukraine: Vodka, dogs.
Spain: Bull murderers, can all swordfight, dancers.
Italy: Pizza, suspicious, all Mafia.
Vatican City: Root of all evil.

:gary:
Posted Image
Posted Image
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
Brera
Member Avatar


Antii
Jan 9 2013, 01:41:22 PM
DrEdArgon
Jan 9 2013, 01:00:15 PM
Finland: "Everyone is cold towards others, nobody talks unless they are drunk and everyone is carrying knives and axes." That is most common stereotypical view I have heard.
I've never met a single person who carried a knife or an axe with them either as a weapon or to defend themselves. That line might be stereotypical but it's not true at all.
thats why its called stereotyping, isnt it? the topic is not called scientific facts about countries...
Posted Image

Spoiler: click to toggle


Good old sig #epicmspaintskills
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
Mercenary
Heavily-Armed Trooper
Shyne
Jan 9 2013, 01:53:15 PM
England: Bad teeth, tea drinkers, beef eaters, up themselves, always fighting, binge drinking.
Wales: Never heard of it.
Scotland: Everyone loves them, hard as nails, whisky, ginger.
Ireland: Guiness, potatos, always drunk and not in Ireland, IRA.
France: Cheese eating surrender monkeys, cheese and wine, snooty romantic gits.
Sweden: Hot blondes.
Holland: Always happy, funny accent, weed, whores, flat.
Germany: Towels on the sunbeds abroad, organised and efficent to the maximum degree, Oktoberfest, cars.
Norway: Black metal fanatics killing each other, vikings, beards.
Romania: Vampires, vodka.
Ukraine: Vodka, dogs.
Spain: Bull murderers, can all swordfight, dancers.
Italy: Pizza, suspicious, all Mafia.
Vatican City: Root of all evil.
Perfect.
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
OJ
Member Avatar
Learning to dab
saiz
Jan 9 2013, 10:15:47 AM
We say this while completely ignoring our own obesity and stupidity (there's no difference between how stupid the US or Europe is. If you asked random European where Vietnam is, nobody would really know.) People are fat and stupid everywhere on regular basis, it's not a US thing at all.
I can't really agree with this, everyone here knows where Vietnam is.

While the US proportionately has the most obese people in the world by a pretty big margin (~30%), yes the UK(~25%) and some Mediterranean states are very fat (I believe Greece is about 20%). But countries like France, Italy, and Switzerland all fall below 10% which in the 21st century is excellent. I'd wager that all of the Scandinavian states and maybe even Germany are below 10% too but I can't be bothered to find out.

Honestly I don't think you can talk about Europeans in general just yet, even though there are no border controls and they are introducing schemes to make people more European than say, Dutch, there is still too much of a divide. Someone from Madrid is completely alien to some living in Minsk on a scale that is much greater than the difference between someone from Miami and someone from Seattle. At the end of the day, we're still not a country, and we're certainly not a nation with a unified culture.

But to answer the topic, I've been around the world and I've never really had people from other countries say anything stupid to me. If anything I think the worst stereotype of all is the one which portrays everyone else as ignorant, how many Brits here have really been asked by an American if they know the Queen? Because I sure haven't. They still probably think Europeans are all homosexuals and Nazis though.
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
A Worthless Piece of Shit
Member Avatar
Flying Spaghetti Monster

http://static.someecards.com/someecards/images/feed_assets/4cdc6defb175d.jpg

This is how i view europe and the rest of the world too


Here's a better view of Europe
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4104/4977428297_96a8f706b2_o.jpg
Edited by A Worthless Piece of Shit, Jan 9 2013, 03:12:25 PM.
Is Hideo Kojima of gay descent?
Posted Image
Max Payne's Ramblings
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
BigBadass
Member Avatar
Tengu Commando
Flying Spaghetti Monster
 
Wait, brazilians as liberal communists? Well, that's new for me. :D
Edited by BigBadass, Jan 9 2013, 04:23:07 PM.
Posted Image

The Secret of CQC

Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
Antii
Member Avatar
Nerf herder.
Brera
Jan 9 2013, 02:08:31 PM
Antii
Jan 9 2013, 01:41:22 PM
DrEdArgon
Jan 9 2013, 01:00:15 PM
Finland: "Everyone is cold towards others, nobody talks unless they are drunk and everyone is carrying knives and axes." That is most common stereotypical view I have heard.
I've never met a single person who carried a knife or an axe with them either as a weapon or to defend themselves. That line might be stereotypical but it's not true at all.
thats why its called stereotyping, isnt it? the topic is not called scientific facts about countries...
So one isn't allowed to comment on something people say here? There's no room for discussion? It's just about posting stereotypes?
Edited by Antii, Jan 9 2013, 04:10:32 PM.
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
Shyne
Member Avatar
10 Year Vet
This isn't really a serious discussion Antii. It's more having a laugh with suggested steroetypes.

:gary:
Posted Image
Posted Image
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
Antii
Member Avatar
Nerf herder.
Shyne
Jan 9 2013, 04:20:28 PM
This isn't really a serious discussion Antii. It's more having a laugh with suggested steroetypes.


I wasn't going for serious discussion. Simply discussion.

Well I think scotts speak in a way that no one understands and always wear a kilt. Irish are always drunk. I think english are very polite and drink 5 'o clock tea every day. They all love their Queen. Swedish are blonde versions of us with a lots of freckles. All french people wear berets and eat croissants for breakfast. They hate to speak english. All norwegians are great skiiers.
Edited by Antii, Jan 9 2013, 04:57:14 PM.
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
black king
Member Avatar
...Burger King?

Hmm let me see

Europe in general: loves soccer
UK: all they eat is fish n chips, drink tea, dentists don't exist and God Save the Queen.
Scotland: Everyone wears skirts, eats haggis, and play bagpipes.
France: Smelly, snotty, eat snails
Spain: Wait, it isn't by Mexico?
Portugal: Why hasn't Spain conquered this yet? It's just there. It's like a hangnail.
Ireland: Potatoes and alcohol
Germany: Sourkraut, Nazis, a language that sounds like you have a frog in your throat
Italy: Mario, Spaghetti, Pizza, Romans
Greece: Gyros, Hercules, debt, and SPARTA!
Hungary: Funny name. Especially when used with the country Turkey
Austria: Kangaroos, that opera house, and....wait that's a different country?
Scandinavia: Socialists
Russia: Freezing, Communists, language that sounds like you have an angry frog in your throat.
Belgium: Waffles and chocolate
Switzerland: Neutrality and banks
Poland: Butt end of jokes. Also Soviets = Motherland and Nazi Germany = Fatherland than Poland is the child.
Romania: Vampires
Latvia and those other small countries beside Russia: Too small to care
Netherlands: Flowers and wooden shoes.

Something like that I think.


Posted Image
The Rules | My MTG Decks


Awards
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
sadistic_greyfox
Member Avatar
Midnight Leader

I dont have much opinions but if there's an equivalent to weeaboos but substitute japan for london, yeah that might be me sometimes, I watch too much guy ritchie and Jason statham movies.

Not really much opinion on everywhere else, havent come in contact with folks from those areas.
Posted Image
Missing you more with each day, Joe (OS.)

Spoiler: click to toggle
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
Beagle
Member Avatar
Better to rule in hell.
American's don't really hold "Europeans" to one general steryotype. more just country by country. but i'll have a go anyway

the UK: Guy Richie films, awful fucking bland food, stabbings, protectionist, royalty

Britain: tea and crumpits, bad teeth, punk rock

Scotland: Whiskey, the loch ness monster, kilts, bag pipes

Wales: inbreds, sheep fuckers,

France: fine food, surrendering armies, everyone is short, everyone is overly sexual, the US always gets dragged into their shit to fix their problems (WW1, WW2, Vietnam etc.)

Germany: the old evil, atheists, progressive but bad art, bestiality.

Switzerland: guns, neutral, banks, gold Swiss army knives

Austria: chocolate land.

Poland: stupid idiots.

Ukraine: everything is radioactive and babies are born with three heads

Holland, Windmills, Dykes, weed, hookers

Norway/Sweden: vikings.

that's all i can think of at the moment
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
1 user reading this topic (1 Guest and 0 Anonymous)
ZetaBoards - Free Forum Hosting
Create your own social network with a free forum.
Go to Next Page
« Previous Topic · Off-Topic Chat · Next Topic »
Add Reply

User Color Code
Admin · Global Moderator · Forum Moderator · Member · Validating · Banned